First Alert Forecast: gorgeous wrap to the fall weekend

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - Happy Sunday! Our First Alert forecast features continued cool northeasterly breezes keeping daytime highs to the lower and middle 70s through early this week. Nights will have lows in the 50s, humidity levels will remain crisp, and skies should stay mostly or completely dry. The forecast will be mainly dry through Tuesday but a system by the middle of next week will bring a good chance of rain and maybe even a few thunderstorms:

An approaching front will bring the next significant rain and storm chance to SE NC for the middle and later part of next week. #WECTwx #ILMwx pic.twitter.com/lrDWyN2v3i
— Eric R. Davis WECT (@ericdavisWECT) October 8, 2022

The tropics are active with Hurricane Julia making landfall in Nicaragua early Sunday morning. Julia is forecast to weaken over land the next few days. That said, no impacts to the Carolinas are expected with this storm. There are also no other areas of interest noted by the National Hurricane Center.

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